“The Whale” is a repackaging of the 2008 documentary “Saving Luna,” which will now get a wider audience thanks to the executive producing of Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds (as narrator, he’s the hot rapper on this remix). The doc tells the tale of Luna, a 1-year-old orca that showed up in July 2001 in a human-frequented fjord called Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island, British Columbia. As Reynolds says in his narration, “He decided if you can’t be with the species you are, make friends with the species you are with.”

And the humans he encounters make the same decision: To know Luna is to bond with Luna, and the great triumph of “The Whale” is that it shows exactly why. They can make friends.